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Article: 80 millions years ago, global sea levels were 560 feet higher than today
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- The Hindustan Times
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- March 7, 2008
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Washington, March 7 -- A new study of 80 millions years ago, has suggested that global sea levels were roughly 560 feet (170 meters) higher than they are today and might plunge downwards in the future.
Geologists from the University of Sydney in Australia conducted the study.
According to a report in National Geographic News, if sea levels were that high now, vast regions would be flooded: most of northern Europe, large sections of South America, the East Coast of North America, and parts of Australia.
The finding stems from more than a decade of effort to virtually reconstruct ancient ocean basins to understand how ...